Doing Things Wrong

Photo Studio

This is a stand you see in a lot of the photos. I cobbled it together from scrap and a dollar's-worth of self-adhesive felt. The neck support is just a padded bolt that adjusts up and down on either side. The stand fits everything from the most bloated Jazz bass body to my smallest Audiovox. It is not a secure stand by any means, just a temporary support for photography. The angle avoids most reflections.

The stand rests on a backdrop I made by tie-dying a drop cloth. At the top, I sewed a pocket for an old shower curtain rod. I never ironed out the wrinkles, I like them. This is all set up on the workbench, with the bright work light above and a couple of extra lights pointed at the ceiling to reduce shadows.

Here is the entire photo 'studio'. The workbench already has a bright overhead light. Next to the stand is a five-dollar photo light - a clamp-on with a daylight LED flood bulb. I have two - the other is illuminating the scene. With the overhead light and two strategically-placed floods, all 'daylight', I have nice even white lighting with no shadows or glare. I generally turn off the rest of the room lights, which can reflect in shiny surfaces.


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This beauty is Evets' reissue of a 1960s Danelectro Hornet. The solid-body Hornet has the same body outline as the Silvertone 1452, a sort-of cross between a 1457 and a Fender Jazzmaster. But unlike the slab-sided 1452, the body of the Hornet is a continuous curve, front and back, with a completely rounded edge. ( This is as sexy as a guitar gets, but makes it a little slippery on your knee. ) The reissue from Evets has the same contours as the original, and even the same 'lightshow' pickguard. The three-tone sunburst on this one was an exclusive to Guitar Center. I picked this one up as an 'open-box' from their subsidiary Music123 for a song, so to speak. The body was originally slathered in dullcote, which I polished off, resulting in a beautiful shine with just a bit of orange peel that I left.

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